From: David Lynch <dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
  To: Jeff Tollaksen <tollakse at chapman.edu>
  Cc: Yakir Aharonov <aharonov at chapman.edu>; Paul Davies <deepthought at asu.edu>; 
  Eyal Amitai <eyal.amitai at nasa.gov>; Petr Horava <horava at berkeley.edu>; 
  Theodore A. Jacobson <jacobson at physics.umd.edu>; Jan Ambjørn <ambjorn
  at nbi.dk>
  Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 6:50:19 AM
Subject: Airy-Fairy Philosophy: The Trapezoid of Time
  Jeff,
  
  Congratulations on the article in Discover magazine titled "Back From
  the Future". 
  The position that future events can have an affect on past
  events is truly mind boggling. 
  Yet I am with you 100 percent, and I may have
  developed a tool that can help others grasp this far reaching concept. 
Due to a serious car wreck on 19 Jun 1977, my view of the world was permanently
  altered. 
  Then on 16 Sept 2003, my position was suddenly flipped into the reverse.
  
  From that September day, my life has been devoted to finding a language and
  a tool that can be used to describe my new understanding of time. 
The new language is a mathematical axiom,
    -c>∞<c+, that eliminates the
  old mathematical axiom, 
  -∞<0.0<∞+, 
  by replacing the infinites
  that cause such problems in solving equations. 
  The new tool is a quantum mirror
  built
  in the spirit of Hegel that uses the energy of Einstein, the force of Newton,
  
  and the logic of Socrates, to describe a moment of time. Below is a link to
  a video of me drawing what I call a KnoWell. Time is a Trapezoid..
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKEqgptciLc
Below is a simple drawing exercise that results in a basic trapezoid. 
  Below
  the drawing exercise, is a series of emails that explain in detail the new
  mathematical axiom, 
  and a model of the universe derived by using logic of the
  KnoWell tool. 
To draw the trapezoid of time, take a blank sheet of 8.5”x11” paper. Lay the paper in the landscape orientation on a drawing surface..
At the top, center, one fourth the way down, draw a two inch line parallel
  to the top edge of the piece of paper with one inch on each side of the center.
  At the bottom, center, one fourth the way up, draw a six inch line parallel
  to the bottom edge of the piece of paper with three inches on each side of
  the center.
  Draw a line from the top left end point of the top line to the bottom left
  end point of the bottom line.
  Draw a line from the top right end point of the top line to the bottom right
  end point of the bottom line.
You now have a Trapezoid.
Label the center of top line with a “ M ” for
    moment. This line segment is the length of a single moment. 
  In reality, this
    line segment is
  just a fraction of a fraction of a fraction. Itty. Bitty.
  
  Label the center of the bottom line segment with a “ T ” for Time.
  This line segment is the length of all time. 
  In reality, this line segment
  is nearly endless.
  
  Label the center of the left line segment, that joins the top and bottom line
  segments together, with a “ P ” for Past. 
  This line segment is
  for the totality of all that has past. 
  In reality, this line segment grows
  by one half the length of the moment segment at each and every moment.
  
  Label the center of the right segment, that joins the top and bottom line segments
  together, with a “ F ” for Future. 
  This line segment is for the
  totality of all that is to come. 
  In reality, this line segment grows by one
  half the length of the moment segment at each and every moment.
Label the top left corner with a “ FM ” for
    Future Moment. At the moment, the future is in the past.
  Label the top right corner with a “ PM ” for Past Moment. At the
  moment, the past is in the future.
  Label the bottom left corner with a “ PT ” for Past Time. Marking
  the point of all past time.
  Label the bottom right corner with a “ FT ” for Future Time. Marking
  the point of all future time.
While the Past and Future lines grow at each and every moment, 
  the Time line
  is pushed farther and farther away from the Moment line, 
  and the Time line
  grows towards the Past line and Future line at each and every moment. 
  Thus
  is the expansion of the Universe.
  
    Your thoughts are most welcome,
    David Noel Lynch
  
    ----- Forwarded Message ----
    From: David Lynch <dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
    To: Katherine Freese <ktfreese at umich.edu>
    Cc: Matthew G. Brown <brownmg at umich.edu>; William H. Kinney <whkinney at buffalo.edu>;
    
  Corrado Ruscica <corrado at corradoruscica.it>; Fred Partus <fpartus at yahoo.com>
    Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 4:37:38 PM
    Subject: The Phantom Bounce: A New Proposal for an Oscillating Cosmology
  Hello,
  
  While sitting at a bar in the summer of 2004, I turned to a friend and just
  blurted out, "Can entropy bounce?' 
  With little delay his response was
  a resounding, "No." Turing to him with a serious look on my face,
  
  I said, "I think entropy bounces like the wings of a butterfly. Like the
  oscillations of Hoyle‘s Steady State" 
Sadly by invoking Hoyle, it was like I had committed
    a cardinal sin. I had questioned the validity of Big Bang theory. 
  I was not
    willing to just say, “No“,
  so I kept working on my hypothesis that entropy was in a state of flux.
Over the years, I have been searching for threads that
    can be woven in to my theory. 
  Last night, I picked up the current Scientific
    American, and I noticed
  the article regarding “Dark Stars”. 
  An interesting position not
  adequately described in the article, so I went to your website looking for
  a detailed paper.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ktfreese/
What caught my eye was a pleasant surprise, “The Phantom Bounce: A New
  Proposal for an Oscillating Cosmology”.
  http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0802/0802.2583v2.pdf
Finally someone out there has provided a professional look at the possibility
  that entropy does indeed bounce. 
  The Phantom Bounce paper does a great job
  of explaining how the current Big Bang theory could have a phantom component
  that causes entropy to bounce. 
  Setting in the stage for an oscillating universe.
As you KnoWell, for any theory to gain acceptance in the scientific community,
  the language of mathematics must be invoked to express said theory. 
  The Phantom
  Bounce paper does a great job providing equations that express the phantom
  force in the states of expansion and contraction. 
  From negative infinity to
  positive infinity including a nudge factor to allow the crossing of the 0.0
  threshold. 
I firmly Bleave that the Phantom Bounce theory is on the correct path. 
  That
  quantum loop gravity and super string branes are at work in the creation of
  the universe. 
  Where I differ is that the language of mathematics has lead science
  astray. That the number line is the reason that science has yet to crack the
  code. 
  Yet to step outside of the axioms of mathematics to express a theory
  is pure insanity. 
What I ask of you in to look in the quantum mirror.. Ask yourself, since the
  universe is made of atoms, what can be nothing? 
  Even Phantom Bounce must deal
  with the special case of 0.0. Also since the universe is made of atoms, what
  can be infinite? 
  Again, Phantom Bounce has to deal with the abstract of a singularity. 
A solution to this paradox is to replace the zero point
    zero on the number line with infinity. 
  At the negative and positive ends
    where the infinities
  are currently positioned, place a negative and positive c, speed of light.
  
  Under this mathematical model, the Phantom Bounce does not occur at each end
  of the Universe cycle, but in the very center. 
  At each and every moment what
  appears to be the Big Bang is the constant collision between quantum loops
  of gravity and super string branes. 
  The result is a Steady Bang Big State Universe.
  -SB>∞<BS+
"Mathematics, -∞<0.0<∞+,
    has lead theorists to a BLeaf in a Big Bang..... 
  Using the mathematical axiom,
    -c>∞<c+, the Universe becomes
  a steady state system." ~ 3K
  
    Below is a letter that I sent to Fay Dowker in response to her answer to
    brane Cox's question "What is time?".
 
  In the below letter, I express
    how the above mathematical axiom, -c>∞<c+ explains the observed universe.
  
    Best wishes,
    David Noel Lynch
  
    ----- Forwarded Message ----
    From: David Lynch <dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
    To: Fay Dowker <f.dowker at imperial.ac.uk>
    Cc: Neil Turok <N.G.Turok at damtp.cam.ac.uk>; Brian Cox <Brian.Cox at cern.ch>;
    Peter Ware Higgs <P.W.Higgs at ed.ac.uk>
    Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 5:43:46 AM
    Subject: a >Grain∞Brane< w
  Fay,
Bravo. Brilliant. Namaste.
In the Brian Cox video, “What is time?”, based on Grain theory,
    
  you suggest that the smooth space time of Einstein’s General Relativity
  Continuum is actually bitty or granular. 
  In the same video, based on the theory
  of brane Worlds, Neil Turok says, 
“  I think, time probably, has always
  been there, and always will be there.”
While Grain theory is clearly a very dynamic way to look at time, brane theory
  is nearly a static way to look at time. 
  To express this duality, orthodox theorists
  could use the General Relativity Space Time Continuum as the benchmark. 
  While
  Grain theory requires a fragmented continuum, brane theory works well with
  a smooth continuum. 
Since Grain theory requires a serious modification to
    General Relativity, 
  a fundamental scientist will shy away from Grain theory
    and lean towards brane
  theory. 
  As you KnoWell, scientific discovery is a cumulative process, 
  and fragmenting
  the smooth space time continuum is a tall order to fill. 
  Like when Einstein
  derived his equations that explained the orbit of Mercury, 
  his method was to
  augment Newton’s equations for gravity, not replace them. 
  In much the
  same way, Grain theory must modify Einstein’s General Relativity. 
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." ~ Niels Bohr
One solution to the fragmentation problem could be resolved by finding the
  Higgs Boson. 
  Till then, maybe there is a way to fragment the space time continuum
  with a couple of branes. 
  However; to use nearly static branes to resolve the
  nearly dynamic Grains is counter intuitive. 
  Especially considering the multitude
  of observations that strongly suggest that gravity is warping the space time
  continuum in a direct relationship to mass. 
  To complicate the situation, we
  must keep in mind the theory of inflation to explain the uniformity in the
  background radiation,
 
  the theory of dark matter to explain the missing mass,
  and the theory dark energy to explain the current acceleration in the expansion
  of the Universe.
As letters can be arranged into words, numbers can be
    arranged into equations. 
  In doing so, both words and equations gain meaning.
    From scientific peer reviews,
  equations gain meaning,. 
  From these reviewed equations, new concepts can be
  abstracted that will change the course of human knowledge. 
  Since the language
  chosen by science to convey concepts is mathematics, any postulate must conform
  to the standard axioms of mathematics. 
  Using the most basic tool, -∞<0.0<∞+,
  the number line, below is a verbal abstraction that will ultimately combine
  the two infinities of the number line into one singular infinity. 
  This new
  axiom of mathematics, “ -c>∞<c+ ”, explains how to get Grains
  from branes. 
Using the analogy of a number line, place “brane a”, alpha, on
  the negative side, and place “brane w”, omega, on the positive
  side. 
  As in Neil’s brane Worlds theory, collide the two branes. “brane
  a”, with a velocity of the speed of light, moves in a positive direction,
  c+, 
  and “brane w”, with a velocity of the speed of light, moves
  in a negative direction, c-. 
  Each brane traverses the number line to the 0.0
  point where “brane a” collides with “brane w”. 
Unlike Neil’s replenishing and bouncing of branes, “brane a” and “brane
  w” are continually passing through each other exchanging information.
  
  The resultant is an infinitesimal creation of space that is reflected in time
  by a Grain that adheres to Einstein’s E=mc^2. 
  The Big Bang is a Steady
  State process that is induced by this constant collision of “brane a”,
  Dark Energy, and “brane w”, Dark Matter. 
Using the analogy of time, “brane a” resides in a particle state
  that can be called the past, and “brane w” resides in a wave state
  that can be called the future. 
  The arrow of time is a dual function of the
  past’s particles that are derived from the future’s waves, and
  the future’s waves are the inversion of the past’s particles. 
  The
  so called “Now” occurs at the infinitesimal 0.0 point where the
  two branes collide producing Grains. 
  This process or “Rain” can
  be expressed by using Einstein’s General Relativity Continuum equations.
  
  The "Rain" theory stands on top of Einstein’s shoulders suggesting
  that at the number line’s 0.0 point, all of time merges, only for an
  brief instant, 
  into one “Future-Present-Past” bundle of time. This
  miraculous combination of three time states can be described as the infinite
  one, the EinSof point.
The mechanics behind the collision of “brane a” with “brane
  w” rests in the duality between negative and positive. 
  An attraction.,
  a magnetism, between Dark Energy’s strong force that is interchanging
  with Dark Matter‘s weak force. 
  The result is a Grain that is forever
  trapped between an extrusion outward from inner space, and a collapsing inward
  from outer space. 
  As “brane a”, exchanges places with “brane
  w”, the force of the collision causes friction that gives rise to all
  rotations in the Universe. 
  This harmonic relationship between “Brian
  a” and “brane w” is why the background radiation appears
  to be so uniform.
In this model, the motive force behind “brane a” is control, and
  the motive force behind “brane w” is chaos. 
  Control may take the
  form of quantum loops of gravity, and chaos may take the form of a Dirac sea
  of pre-particles. 
  Projecting through “brane a”, the transitional
  barrier could be the speed of light, and projecting through “brane w”,
  the outer barrier could be absolute zero. 
  Beyond “brane a”, would
  be the domain of perfect control, and beyond “brane w” would be
  pure chaos. 
  Thus “brane a” is a collection of standard model subatomic
  particles, and “brane w“ is a Dirac sea filled with pre-particles.
On a cosmic scale this effect can been observed around
    galaxies in the form of what current theories postulate is evidence of Dark
    Matter. 
  As emerging
  particles from the central black hole radiate symmetrical emission lines, chaotic
  waves are aligned into harmonics. 
  As more and more emerging particle’s
  radiate lines of symmetry, more and more chaotic waves stack up on top of each
  other creating compression zones. 
  These compression zones are evident in the
  star light bending around massive objects. The more massive the object, the
  more wave energy collapsing in from outer space. 
  Thus the more the star light
  bends. The compression of outer space trying to reach inner space, causes gravity
  to warp the space time continuum. 
  At the “Rain” precipitation threshold, “brane
  a”, in particle form, and “brane w” in wave form, interchange
  information resulting the creation of a Grain. 
Gravity is a push caused by the collapse of outer space,
    and the friction between “brane a” and “brane w” is
    what causes each Grain to be formed. 
  As the new Grain particle radiates,
    the Universe continues
  to heat up from the current 3K. 
  This creation of Grains, that add more radiation
  to the Universe, is what causes the continued acceleration. 
  The counter balance
  to the acceleration is the collapse of outer space. 
  As outer space collapses,
  the light from distant stars is stretched causing the observed red shift making
  the Universe appear to be cooling. 
  The duality suggests that the Big Bang requires
  a Steady State system to exploit. 
Welcome to the “Rain” paradox.
"Mathematics, -∞<0.0<∞+,
    has lead theorists to a BLeaf in a Big Bang..... 
  Using the mathematical axiom,
    -c>∞<c+, the Universe becomes
  a steady state system." ~ 3K
  
    To be able to envision this new Universe view, 
  I present to you a quantum
    mirror built in the spirit of Hegel that uses the energy of Einstein, the
    force of Newton, and the logic of Socrates, 
  to describe a moment of time.
    Below is a link to a video of me drawing what I call a KnoWell. Time is a
    Trapezoid..
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKEqgptciLc
Since few people will entertain conversations that questioned the validity
  of the big bang, I turned to expressing myself using abstract art. 
  Teachers
  always want their students to show their work. Below is a link to an image
  of how I derived the KnoWell equation. The original image is 4'x8'.
   
    
  
  http://www.lynchphoto.com/elohim.html 
Below is a link to an image that shows how the KnoWell is extrapolated out
  of Newton's logic.
   
  
  
  http://www.lynchphoto.com/disney.html 
I have created 2.75 terabytes of images and art. Below is a link to the KnoWell
  expressed in set notation.
   
    
  
  http://www.lynchphoto.com/wreck.html 
"N Sanity is a funny state, one never quite knows when they have arrived." ~
  3K
   
    
  
  http://www.lynchphoto.com/question.html
Brian Cox asks,“What time is it?” 
“
I have no Earthly idea.” ~3K
Best wishes,
David Noel Lynch